Senior Data & IT Business Office Advisor

Cenovus Energy; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Health & dental benefits

Mental health coverage

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Employee family assistance

Virtual healthcare coverage

Job summary

Cenovus Energy is seeking a Senior Data & IT (D&IT) Business Office Advisor to drive financial management, governance, and value realization for D&IT investments. This office-based role partners with Finance, project teams and leaders to deliver executive-ready reporting and robust business cases.

You will perform multi-year forecasting, cost estimation, and ROI narratives using SAP data, guiding decision quality and portfolio prioritization in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Post-secondary degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Commerce, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience spanning financial management, business case development, portfolio management, project governance, strategy execution, or technology investment analysis.
• Strong SAP experience, including interpretation of SAP financial data for decision making.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial management support across planning, budgeting, forecasting, multi-year projections, cost estimating, accruals, journal entries, and investment tracking for D&IT initiatives and G&A costs.
• Develop, review, and steward business case information from opportunity identification through implementation, with traceability of assumptions, risks, decisions, and value.
• Apply economic and investment analysis (NPV, IRR, ROI) to support needs analysis, approvals, portfolio prioritization, and benefits realization tracking.
• Use SAP and related financial data to interpret cost structures, commitments/actuals, reporting outputs, and budgeting/forecasting.
• Produce executive-level reporting and governance materials for demand intake, stage gates, and investment decisions.
• Partner with D&IT, Finance, Business Services, and project teams to translate requirements into deliverables and improve governance.

Skills

Financial management

Budgeting

Forecasting

Business case development

Cost of ownership

Economic modeling

Narrative reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Post-secondary degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Commerce, Information Technology, or related discipline

Tools

SAP

Job description

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 08/24/2026

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is seeking a Senior Data & IT (D&IT) Business Office Advisor to support the financial management, governance, and value realization of D&IT investments. This office-based role will provide financial modeling, business case support, total cost of ownership analysis, forecasting, allocation/showback support, and executive-ready reporting across D&IT initiatives and G&A costs. Reporting to the Acting Senior Manager - D&IT Business Office and Process Governance, the role is an individual contributor position that leads through influence and partners closely with D&IT, Finance, Business Services, project delivery teams, and business leaders. The successful candidate will bring strong financial discipline, SAP experience, project exposure, business case rigor, and the ability to translate financial and portfolio insights into practical recommendations that improve decision quality and business value.

What you’ll do:

• Provide financial management support across planning, budgeting, financial modeling, multi-year forecasting, cost estimating, accruals, journal entries, and ongoing investment tracking for D&IT initiatives and G&A costs.
• Develop, review, and steward business case information from opportunity identification through implementation, maintaining traceability of assumptions, risks, decisions, total cost of ownership, costs, benefits, and expected value.
• Apply economic and investment analysis, including NPV, IRR, payback, scenario/sensitivity analysis, ROI narratives, and cost/benefit analysis to support needs analysis, approvals, portfolio prioritization, and benefits realization tracking.
• Use SAP and related financial data to interpret cost structures, commitments/actuals, reporting outputs, allocation/showback information, and financial trends that support accurate budgeting, forecasting, and decision making.
• Produce executive-level reporting and governance materials for demand intake, triage, stage gates, steering or working committee reviews, portfolio updates, and investment decision records.
• Partner with D&IT, Finance, Business Services, project delivery teams, business leaders, and other stakeholders to consolidate requirements, translate them into D&IT deliverables, and improve value management, reporting consistency, process alignment, and governance quality.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Post-secondary degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Commerce, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience spanning financial management, business case development, portfolio management, project governance, strategy execution, or technology investment analysis.
• Strong financial background with demonstrated experience in planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, cost estimating, benefits realization, and executive reporting.
• Strong SAP experience, including the ability to interpret SAP financial data, cost structures, commitments/actuals, and reporting outputs to support decision making.
• Experience with total cost of ownership, business cases, project costing, benefits analysis, economic modeling, NPV, IRR, payback, sensitivity/scenario analysis, and ROI narratives.
• Strong communication, storytelling, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, negotiation, influencing, and consensus-building skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced cross-functional environment while managing multiple priorities and applying pragmatic, value-focused governance.

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT August 23rd, 2026.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
• Health & dental benefits
• Substantial mental health coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Employee family assistance
• Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

• Internal course offerings
• Education assistance for additional development
• Opportunities to work on special projects
• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes— for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.
• Our values:
  • Protect what matters
  • Do it right
  • Make it better
  • Do it together
• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
  • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
  • Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
  • Receive donation matching up to $10,000 annually.
• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.